Parvin Mokhtare was just doing what any other mom would do when she took to the airwaves of Radio Farda (RFE/RL’s Persian-language service) to protest the arrest of her son, journalist and human rights activist Kouhyar Goudarzi, who has been imprisoned off and on by the Iranian government for years. Mokhtare was her son’s […]
Tag: Persecution
Iran Mandaeans in exile following persecution
Al Arabiya – More than 300 Iranian families were forced to leave their homeland in the western province of Khuzestan after facing a series of discriminatory acts for following the faith Sabian Mandaeism which is not officially acknowledged in the Islamic republic.
Iranian official’s statement at UN cannot conceal persecution of defence lawyers
Amnesty International – Amnesty International deplores the statement at a UN press conference on 16 November 2011 by Mohammad Javad Larijani, the Secretary General of the Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights, that “[n]o lawyer is in prison because he is a lawyer or he is a defender of human rights.”
Persecution of Gonabadi Dervishes is going in Kavar
Today (11/9/2011), Mehdi Dehghan was arrested in Kavar by the security forces.According to Majzooban Noor website’s reporter, at noon of Aban 18, 1390 (November 09, 2011) the security forces arrested this Gonabadi Dervish, raiding his house without any legal warrant and moved him to an unknown place.